Requirements Engineer, Data Analyst

Discovery - Vitality Life

Requirements Engineer

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

Vitality Life, alongside sister brand Vitality Health, provide insurance services to the UK market. Vitality Life specialises in selling life insurance directly to individuals, families and businesses; via financial advisers and insurance brokers. Working for Vitality Life Systems, you'll experience an exciting mix of creativity and innovation, within a framework of challenging objectives and a passion for delivering the best. We think work should be fun and sociable, and we want our people to get the most out of every day.

Our people are chosen for their skills, knowledge, enthusiasm and attitude but above all, their belief that anything can be achieved.

Requirements engineers perform analysis and collaborate with stakeholders to identify, define, document, validate and manage requirements so that the outcome achieved enables the objectives of the business to be met.

The Requirements Engineer works independently by enhancing both documented and undocumented artefacts and/or domain requirements. They act as a functional subject matter expert (SME) responsible for one or more applications and/or processes aligned to a value stream.

• Manage Requirements Development Life Cycle: Work mostly independently, enhancing existing capability within a value stream for more than one business area/stakeholder.
• Maintain Artefacts: Produce and maintain domain artefacts, conduct peer reviews, and ensure integration of artefacts into the wider domain.
• Engage Stakeholders: Engage independently with mostly internal stakeholders, building relationships and acting as a consultant.
• Provide Engineering and Scrum Support: Support various activities in the engineering scrum, handle queries, and provide updates to timelines and progress.
• Build and Transfer Skills and Knowledge: Act as a functional SME, conduct training within the team, and assist associate requirements engineers.
• Collaborate Within and Across Teams: Work effectively with others, share ideas, and communicate clearly.

• Participate in client planning forums and advise on solutions
• Challenge the business in their thinking, especially to understand the intent of the business requirement
• Assist business to articulate the benefits they wish to realize with the solution
• Pursue enquiries with clients to understand the "why" rather than the "what" of the business request
• Facilitating the development of a Business Case

• Follow a structured process to listen to, understand and document client requirements
  If needed, facilitate activities like interviews or JAD sessions to expand the understanding of the business requirements
• If required, perform analytical tasks, data extracts, run queries or any other form of analysis to gather information
• Following up with clients to clear up ambiguity and possible misunderstanding
• Documenting the requirements in a Customer Requirements Specifications (CRS) document (which may include UML models, business process documents)
• Ensuring alignment between the Business Case and the CRS
• Review the functional requirements with the client, using appropriate formats such as presentations and walk-through discussions and obtain sign-off on CRS

• Design and validate the functional solution
• This involves interpreting the CRS into a set of Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS)
• Apply knowledge of the system, interfaces and dependencies to highlight integration aspects that must be considered
• Identify a set of stakeholders that need to be involved in creating and validating the PRS
• Interview business and technical owners, as well as experienced members of the development team (Development Manager, Architect, Business Analyst Senior)
• Identify and Involve other teams and domains that must be integrated to for the solution to work
• Build & demonstrate GUI prototypes, to validate the designs
• Perform modelling & build data models that simulate the solution
• Identify and design a set of test cases/scripts, test scenario's and test data sets to accompany the PRS
• Validate the PRS and Test Basket with the client and identified stakeholders and obtain sign-off
• Solution Proposal:
• Review the approved CRS and PRS with the development team
• If required, revert back to client or other stakeholders if technical issues…